How to Build an Impactful Podcast | Fatima Bey on The How to Podcast Series

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okay everyone welcome back to the how podcast series I have okay you know those toys that you

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see when you're a kid and you can wind them up and then they just go they just

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go my guest today is one of those where you're going to we're just going to wind her up we're going to give her a topic

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and we're going to get out of the way uh because you're going to be super

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inspired listening to uh my guest co-host today she's got a great podcast she's got a heart for students and

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telling your story and she's got so much Insight I'm so excited to have Fatima on

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the podcast Fatima welcome thank you to how to podcast series I am thrilled to

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have you here how are you I'm great and I I appreciate you having me on this is is going to be awesome so before we jump

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into our content and what we're going to talk about talk about your podcast what it is who it's for where to get it do

My Podcast Journey & Why I Serve Teens

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all the things let everybody know about your show all right so uh again as he

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said my name is Fatima Bay I'm also known as Fatima Bay the Mind Shifter um

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I'm a mind shift coach so um as a mind shift coach my focuses are on um helping

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you to find your purpose and once you do find your purpose how to turn that into a business or career because we should

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all be making money of what we're born to do instead of just working a job um how to find balance in in any area of

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your life where you're imbalanced um and then teenagers so my podcast uh is on that fourth subject of

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teenagers so my podcast is called Mind shift power podcast it could be found on

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just about any platform in the world you listen to podcasts um and um it's for teens and

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the adults who work with them so my goal with the podcast is to bridge the gap between teenagers and adults um in

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America and Canada so my my target audience is Canadians and uh Americans

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and and half my guests so far actually have been Canadian um so I I you know

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our cultures are very similar so um I decided to bring us together and you can also thank Dave for that because he's

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the one that he didn't know it but he's the one that talked me into uh including Canada in my initial

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um because initially it was just going to be for America and I was like you know what there's a lot to gain from Canadians and I would love to learn more

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about can Canadia as I like to say um and uh yeah so my podcast is for

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teens and the adults work with them and I'm really enjoying my journey so far actually I'm I'm learning a lot um and I

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love having the opportunity to meet and talk to people that I otherwise might not connect with and so it's been

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beautiful I love it I love the whole premise of your show I love who you

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serve um okay let's before we do this go into again to our content I I I always want to know a

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podcaster why it's one thing to talk about what your podcast is about but why

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are you doing this why is this so important to you there's got to be this kernel that just brings you back to the

The "WHY" Behind My Podcast: Being a Solution in a Troubled World

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microphone and do each episode and to do what you do in life why is this so important to you oh that's a great

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question it's full of passion so my why is Vision I see where our youth are

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I see where this world is and I see where we're headed and it is not good I cannot change the world by myself but

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I'm going to do what I can from where I am and what I have is attitude in a mouth and a microphone so I create a

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platform where I can use it to help other people what I'm about is impact so what I I created my podcast not just so

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I can have another Branch to my branding yeah honestly that of course that's a part of it but that wasn't the major

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motivator that's more like secondarily for me it's more of a passion project that I'm combining with you know with

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with my business I saw a problem and I want to be part of the

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solution I am a solution oriented thinker that is how I think I'm not a person is just going to come up with all

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the excuses for why something's wrong I'm going to say okay here's why it's wrong but hm can I do to fix it so I

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can't go into everybody's home and and make them act right I can't go into school systems and make them all get rid

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of their bureaucratic BS and start acting like humans but what I can do is speak to the minds of all of them and

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try to bring them together the problem that I see is that our youth are being

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raised in a way that is extremely unhealthy unproductive for them and unproductive for the future of our

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countries okay okay they're being raised to not to think in terms of problem

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solving or they're being raised not to think in terms of real solutions they're being raised to think in terms of be

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careful what you say because everybody's going to be offended don't breathe we're going to get offended like we're just so

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extreme with that that it's producing a generation of of of people who don't know how to communicate who don't know

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how to think as a problem solver and the ones that do are the exception not the rule that's a problem for all of us

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that's a problem for our future and so many of our youth are feeling so lonely that's object number one object

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objective number two um so much of our youth even though we're all digitally

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connected no other generation has felt more isolated than the teens today the

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numbers show it it is it it is statistics everywhere but even for Forget About Numbers just talk to them

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you can hear it and you can see it I go to schools I do workshops jobs um I I

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I've done youth programming I just work with youth in different various ways and have for a while and it's what I see and

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because I actually care about youth even when I was a child I cared about children and it just never changed as I

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grew up I still cared about children and the children I care about right now that I'm focused on right now are teens and

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young adults you know and and I care about their play and I care about what's best for them and I want to make a

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difference for them I may not be able to change it all but I can do something so I created a platform instead of waiting

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for anybody else to make the change I really truly believe in being the change that you want to see yeah so I want to

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see a change for them I want to see these teens that feel isolated feel alone and feel stupid and feel dumb and

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feel like they're the only ones going through what they're going through to know you're not the only one suffering the way you are you're not the only one

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having your these thoughts you're not the only one dealing with these issues you're not the only one with stupid

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parents you're not the only one with nobody to talk to go on and on and on with many different subjects I want them

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to know that they're not alone yeah and having a podcast where they can hear other teens like themselves say hey I'm

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going through this this is what's real in an it helps it's very helpful but one

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of the reasons why that's helpful is because I don't bow down to political correctness political correctness can

The Three B's of Podcasting: My Core Philosophy

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kiss my butt like that's that's my attitude you know because and it's not

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because I and when I say that don't mean that we need to be obnoxious and go to the other end of the spectrum and be you

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know be obnoxious and rude and say whatever you want and just have no cth and no no common sense and no no

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sensitivity that's the Other Extreme that's bad too I want to see I want to

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be the balance that I want to see which is be honest and real have those uncomfortable

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conversations but we can do it without being rude and obnoxious yeah you know and that's on my show you can come on

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and say what you want but every guest knows and I have this conversation with literally every single guest you can

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curse you can say what you want just don't be rude and obnoxious because there's there's no point in that that's not solving any problems my goal with my

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podcast in short is to create a solution nice not just to create a platform where

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I could sell you stuff sure I'm g sell you stuff sure of course I'm a businesswoman but that's for me that's

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secondarily first it was created to to be a solution to a problem that I see

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and most people don't think about connecting those dots until I say it but almost every time I say it to an adult

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they're like yeah you're right they're like I never thought about that but that's how I think I'm a DOT connector

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where I I always like to say it like this where everybody else just sees dots I see the connection between them

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I'm able to connect the dots so and if you listen to my podcast long enough if you watch my YouTube videos you can

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definitely hear that that's how I think the way I summarize what other people say is usually me connecting the dots

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because most people get lost in the dots I call those details most people get lost in details they hear your story

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they hear what you're saying but they don't make the connection between the principles behind what you said you know what I mean when you when

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we when we I love listening to other people's stories oh my God it turns me on so much to hear other people's

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stories of becoming I don't care where you came from you C you you came from the most race racist white trash family

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and now you're successful the worst ghetto and now you're successful blah blah blah whatever it is whatever terms

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you want to use I don't care where you just like to hear people's stories because I love to hear people gaining

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confidence and growing and becoming something meaningful I think that's beautiful and um anyway I will go on and

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on I love it no that's what I meant remember I said in the beginning little toy you wind it up and let her go I'm

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very as you can hear I'm very passionate about it um and I I again I started my podcast because you know we're also

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talking to podcasters um and I want to talk to your audience for a moment there um if you are starting a podcast

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or you're Miss of the podcast trying to figure out content make sure you're you have a

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targeted not just audience but a targeted subject that everybody else is not focused on that you can focus on

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that makes you different you know we have enough people talking fluff

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quite frankly we have enough people talking about oh I'm gonna talk about the safe subjects okay everybody else is saying

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the same thing how are you any different blah blah boring talk about you could talk about the same subject but talk

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about it in a different way who's not being addressed within the niche you know what audience is not being reached

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what what I always like to say this life is swe Swiss cheese there's holes

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everywhere I don't care who you're talking about what you're talking about none of us have none of us are full

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block of cheese we always have holes there's always something missing right I don't care what subject you're talking about yeah you could talk about a

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subject but you're going to be narrowly focused on this or are leaning towards One Direction in this area of that said

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subject yeah it's in find find the holes what's missing you know don't just look

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at what everybody else is doing look at what everybody else is not doing flip your thinking around I haven't te be the

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Mind Shifter so I'm always having people shifter thinking that's what I do but um but yeah for for podcasters who are out

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there and especially if you're a team podcaster um shift your thinking instead of looking at what everybody else is

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doing looking at what everybody else is doing what everyone else is doing is a good way to study what they're not doing

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look at what's missing and address that because you might be the one that people are going to listen to because you're addressing the thing no one else is you

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know see okay so I have three things I want to cover with you okay and I want

Principle #1: Why Podcasters Need to "BE EVERYWHERE"

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you to again I'm going to wind you up and let you go and because I know we're

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going to have some amazing conversation around the these three things okay it's all around

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podcasting all right I want your response through the lens of podcasting

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on why we as podcasters we need to be

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everywhere oh go God that's a loaded question so on

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because again you're everywhere with your podcast we can listen on 40 plus places you're everywhere so you're a

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good example of this why why do we need to be everywhere what does that mean to

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be everywhere as a podcaster why what's the reason to be everywhere go you're up I'm gonna put it

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in a very simple way and then explain it okay

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um Variety in informational source is going to give you a better balance thinking so

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I told you that balance is one of the subjects that I focus on everything in life that works has balance everything

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in life that's not working it's because something's out of balance yeah and if most of you think about it when I tell

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people that they always take a minute to think and they're like actually yeah you're right um when it comes to media

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and I when I say media I don't mean just CNN I mean any form of media we no

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longer get our news from just mainstream media most of us anyway and I think that

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that's a good thing the more information we hear from different ources the better balance we

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can get if you're only hearing your information from one or two sources you're going to get their their

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narrative on the subject and I don't care who you are if you're a human being you have a narrative because that's

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human nature and really truly there's nothing wrong with that what's wrong is when you say my narrative is the only

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one and only listen to me right then you're trying to start a cult and shut up I'm not listening to

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you don't do that right but um I think it's important that why we need to be

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everywhere is because we people need to hear a variety of information you know when I'm listening to news I don't just

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listen to leftwing news or right-wing news I listen to a combination of different sources so that I get the the

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the the real truth because the real truth is going to be a balance between all of them good and if you really want

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to have balanced thinking don't just listen to people who think like you it's important that we don't only listen to

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people who think like us you can't gain any balance that way you know when you look at a chatter if you put all the

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weight on one end the other end is going to fly off and you're going to be imbalanced if you want to have balance

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you have to have something relatively equal at either end so you need you need

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variety of thought you need uh what's the word I'm looking for diversity

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that's the word I'm looking for yeah diversity of thought is extremely extremely important for a balanced way

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of thinking and the more balanced we are in our thinking the better we can serve our societies that we're in generally

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speaking so I think we need to be everywhere so that we can have more balanced thinking and that people can

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hear other perspectives you know I love foreigners and one of the foreigners so

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much and when I say foreigners I'm American so I mean anybody comes from another country and they're not American except for Canadians you're not

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forers you don't count but but from anywhere else I love

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I I love foreigners and I love talking to foreigners the main reason I love it is because I have something to learn from them yeah you know I they're going

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to teach me something I didn't know because I didn't grow up in their culture I don't have their experience yeah and so I value that I value that I

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can learn from them so I I love talking to them just about anything I just love love love Foreigners for that reason

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because I think that it helps me to have a healthier balanced way of thinking um I used to teach English as a second

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language and um and I've just worked with foreigners in different Capac capacities throughout my life and let me

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tell you I they have taught me a lot I really value my the fact that I've been around so many foreigners because they

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have helped me as an American to have a much more balanced perspective than I otherwise might good y good I love it

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okay so that's be everywhere the other thing is as a podcast host your voice can be everywhere there's no there's no

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borders there's no restrictions but who can hear your voice yes that's number

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right so for for for for you as a podcaster and I'm thinking of students

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that are podcasting just imagine that somebody can hear your voice in

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Germany in Africa Mexico your voice has no limits

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your opinion how you see the world how you present yourself you're not limited to your small town to your classroom

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right to your school you there's no limit your voice can go anywhere through a podcast and you can you the world is

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your audience as a podcast and especially you have something important to say the more people can hear it and

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they don't have to go through the filters like you said um I am my podcast as I said before I don't do political

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correctness you can say what you want um and that allows people to be honest and have real conversations yeah um so that

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you can come up with Solutions and you're right um one of my goals when I first started that I actually stated in

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conversations about it was wanted teachers and counselors and adults who work with teens in any capacity to hear

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what other people are doing in other states that they might not hear you know because they might be able to take it home you might hear something that

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they're doing in New York and you're like wait a minute I'm in a small town in Oklahoma I might not be big city but I can take the principle of what they're

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doing in in the Bronx and it'll work here or vice versa you know so yeah I

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totally agree um so that was be everywhere okay so I got another one for

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you mhm and then a little hint they all start with the word b so we have B everywhere how about

Principle #2: The Critical Importance of Being "BE REAL"

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this one for podcasters we need to be real I think I already said it yeah

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let's go a little bit more on that though little more being real is is extremely critical

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because I think that Solutions are I'm a solution or to person so that is the way I think and I think um I think about

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Solutions and so everything I do is about bu solutions to something

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so you know you can't solve a problem

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from feville if I'm in realville we live in realville feville is on the moon we need

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to climb a spaceship to get there we can't solve a problem on fake

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Ville we we you know realville is where we live so being real is important

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because you can't number one you can't solve a problem from where you aren't you can always solve a problem for where

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people are and I think it's very important to meet people where they are if you want to solve a problem number two being real is

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critical and this is probably bigger I would say this probably should have been number one being real is critical

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because it's important for people to hear that they're not alone and being real means that people

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can identify with your struggles they can identify with your victories they can identify with your experiences they

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can know oh wait a minute I'm not the only one with impostor syndrome wait a minute I'm not the only one that thinks

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they're stupid and trying to fight those thoughts every day I'm not the only one that failed and trying to get back up

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and look stupid but I keep doing it oh that is something Victorious wait a

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minute I have fought through things oh my God I am strong these are the type of things that can make a difference in a

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person's life and make a difference on how they see themselves so being real is important because people need to know

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the real deal so that they can figure out Solutions but also so that they can know that they're not alone and that they're not stupid I know I keep saying

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that but it's the number one thing I see in people people feel stupid and awkward and weird and they're not they're normal

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but they feel like they're not normal because people want to portray images of perfection that just ain't freaking real

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right you know I you know this this is related but so we're not talking about

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my other business but I do have other another business bu because I'm a dual entrepreneur I'm making design wedding GS and the reason I'm bringing that up

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is in this in this in the bridal industry and I've been in the bridal industry for over 20 years something

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that I see in young women especially prom girls I deal with a lot of prom girls and I love them but one thing that

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infuriates me about them and it gets me mad I don't get mad at them it just gets me mad that it's true yeah I get very

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angry when I see all these young women who beat themselves up because they don't look like a stupid ass image in a

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magazine or on Tik Tok or whatever and they don't realize that those that's not real they use filters whether it's

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airbrushing if it's something printed U or a filter to to make their butt look bigger their hips look they they uterus

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disappears so they don't have stomach and it's flat which ain't natural yeah you know just excuse me

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just it it makes me angry because I I hate to see these young women put

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themselves down down because they don't have an they don't fit into an image that they think yeah is perfection and

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this is why being real is important being real lets people know I am not

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perfect but I'm not bad I am not perfect but I'm good in

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this way because Michelle Obama did it and she was from the south side of Chicago so maybe I'm not too bad being

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real matters because it helps to build people up and that's what people don't see they're so worried about portraying

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an image of perfection portraying an image that look at me and how great I am feed into my ego so I can build my

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self-esteem falsely yeah too many people are thinking that way so they're not being real with you because they're

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afraid to be vulnerable and we're afraid to show people our faults because we

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don't want it thrown back in our in our faces and those are real concerns but sometimes we we don't have to tell all

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your business but sometimes being real you don't realize who you're helping because you're helping to lift somebody

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up else up to say I am not alone and that is so so so important and

The Real Deal on Being Real

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impactful just tell your story I don't care how trashy you were I don't care how bad you were tell it you'd be

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surprised how many people will come out in the Woodworks in social media if you make it a post and comment hey that was

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me too they may not even comment they might be in your inbox I know because it's happened to me

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yeah and um and as you can tell I'm very passionate about it I just think being real is a critical piece to solving the

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world's problems I see too too many people students included that compare their day

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daily everyday life to somebody's highlight reel right and that not even

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that's not even don't do that because they only want to show you the best of

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the best in their life they're not going to show you they're terrible Monday morning they're not going to show you

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that they're going to show you the best they want to present and even I'm not going to do that I might tell you in in a story and to make a point but I'm not

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going to go on on you know social media be like I want to punch somebody in the face today that man's lucky he's alive I

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wanted to stab him right in the face you know I'm not gonna tell you I thought that no no you know I'm not gonna tell

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you I'm gonna tell you hey look I I accomplished this here's the thing when you see people's accomplishments just

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know you didn't see the road they travel to get there right I can show you the pictures to me arriving in California

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but I didn't show you the hell I went through to drive there you go you know and and people yeah I think it's

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important to be real because being real when you are real whether you realize it

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or not and whether you see it immediately or not you are really helping to build other people so we need

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to be everywhere we need to be real and I know you're going to hit this one out

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of the park we need to be different yes be different let's go be

Principle #3: Why You MUST "BE DIFFERENT"

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different come on being different is is critical and I had I had um said a little bit about it

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earlier my podcast is different you heard the premise of it how many of you have heard a podcast like that I haven't

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and everyone I talk to hasn't either so as far as I know I'm the only one with a podcast quite like mine I'm not the only

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with a podcast for youth but I'm the only with a podcast with my objectives and my style and you uh yeah

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he only holds me yeah um but I think it's important especially since we're talking about

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podcasting to to be different you know as I said earlier if everybody else is

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talking about the same subject and you want to talk about it too there's nothing wrong with that talk about it

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differently don't just be the same sounding board that everyone else already is and you could be saying the

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same stuff you already saying because honestly most of us coaches I hear a lot of coaches who who

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talk talking about the same stuff I do but we don't do it the same way and that's what makes us different and it

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helps to draw people in now for me I'll give you an example for myself when I

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talk I intentionally especially when I'm giving speeches or coming on to you know

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to do an interview like this you will very often not hear me use common

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buzzwords and that is by Design I do that on purpose and I'll tell you why and I'm only saying this because we're

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talking to a podcasting Community yeah when we hear buzzword and I'm specifically talking about about

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buzzwords not all words just buzzword the words that are in today and you know they're very popular and they're

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commonly used today yeah nine times out of 10 buzzword the meaning of those

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buzzword gets watered down because they get overused and misused right so people

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tend to have this attachment or Association is a better word to these buzzword that don't truly convey your

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point and if I want to be impactful and instead of impressive I use different

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words for example instead of saying triggered

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because it's overused today it really is especially with the youth because I did with teenagers it is overused and nine

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times and well maybe not nine times seven times out of 10 it is misused I don't say triggered unless

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somebody else brings it up then I'm in a conversation with them and we need to be on the same page I will agree with the word but I don't usually say triggered I

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ask about trauma points I find other synonyms around it to talk

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about it so what I do is sometimes instead of saying the word I will use the descriptor instead because it makes

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people think instead of associate now that's going a little deeper than most people think but that's

A Secret to Being Different: Re-wording and Buzzwords

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that's an example of what I do to be different is instead of again using

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trigger words I will explain the definition of that word in my question instead of using a a not trigger sorry I

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instead of using a uh what's the word I just used a a a a typical word that

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people use I forgot the word I just Ed this now um but a buzzword sorry that's

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the word buz word yeah yeah instead of using a bu buzzword I will again I will

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ask the question I will reword it in a way that makes you get the point of what

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I'm saying instead of the instead of the association of that buzz word good so that's another that's a way of me being

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different in my you know in my style and my talks and when I'm talking to people um and I don't use the same words with

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everybody I talk to so if I'm talking to you one-on-one I may use different words talking to you then I will Sheila down

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the street because you're different people you have different mindsets you receive differently and I recognize that

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as a Mind Shifter you know it's what I do is I help people to shift their thinking but

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that's part of how I do it I just gave youall my secrets so that's part of that's part of how I do it is I I modify

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what I'm saying to the audience I'm talking to uh you know within reason as much as I can and if it's an audience of

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one then I really um I really really uh customize

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how I word things to that person to get the point across and the examples that I use you know so I you know a guy who

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works for an airplane and is very standard typical masculine watches Sports and drinks beer is different than

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the Barbie do girly right I talk to them different yeah you know I talk to them different because they're going to

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relate to different things and I'll use different examples now what's the same is the principle so that's how I think

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differently is I think I think in terms of principles and I talk in terms of principles so for me I talk principle

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first detail second most people talk details first and then they get lost in the principles well the principles get

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lost in the conversation rather if that does that make sense yeah I'm with you the whole way through I love it so

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that's what those are the three that I definitely wanted to talk about again be everywhere be real and be different I

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think as podcasters those are three things that we can even do in our next episode is how are we going to address

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those three things in our content how we deal with our uh reaching out to our community Through social media for

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example how can you be real how can you be everywhere and how can you be different one more thing I want to add

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there one thing I want to add that I want to say to the audience because we're talking to podcasters in

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particular one of the reasons why people are not as honest as I am is they're afraid

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to be they're afraid of who they're going to offend because that's what our society teaches us to think a way our

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society teach something I do not think that way switch your thinking around shift your thinking and switch your

A Final Challenge: Who Are You Reaching vs. Who Are You Offending?

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focus to not to who you're trying not to offend but who are you

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reaching focus on who you're making an impact on who are you making an impact

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on everybody else can go sit down somewhere that if you make that your

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mentality you will have a strong following it is better to have 25 strong

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followers than a 100 flaky ones and if you think that way you will

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be a stronger podcaster and you'll have a greater ability to grow your podcast because you'll have a stronger following

Collecting People & The Value of Your First Listener

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audience because you're real with them and and you're you're impacting them and you're not not just talking on the

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surface and being safe so focus on who you're reaching

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instead of who you're trying not to offend my challenge to a student

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listening is I think if if I could have sat in class beside me back in the day

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and had a chance to talk to myself which would be weird but if I could one thing

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I would tell myself is to value the art of collecting

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people value the art of collecting people in relationship in

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community don't be afraid to be yourself because as you put yourself out there

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and you demonstrate the confidence of who you are which takes a long time to for some people to come to but when you

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can get to the part where you feel confident in who you are that confidence brings people to you because they're

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also looking for that in their lives so go collect those people go collect those

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relationships we're all doing this life at the same time so nobody has an

32:12

advantage over you and no one has a disadvantage you're all we're all playing the same game so as many people

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as you can bring into your life start early keep growing that Community cuz

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you never know how you can serve that community in the future or how they can turn around and be there when you need

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community so build it now and that goes also then to podcasters build it

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now even with one episode and you have one listener don't don't think you failed

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you have one listener and we go back to the apple seed thing we talked about there's potential in that one person

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beyond anything you can measure so don't think think that you've wasted your time

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with one person in your life when that one person could be the biggest change

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in the world and your words could redirect their thoughts their path and give them light and hope yes just from

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something you say so don't stop collecting people

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to to that end and I like the way you put that I think that's an excellent way to to to word it

The Ultimate Measure of Impact: Getting Real Feedback

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to that end H make an

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impact whatever subject it is make an impact with your your uh podcast and how

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you know that you're impacting people isn't the number of listeners as as Dave just said you know you're impacting

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people when you get feedback right from the humans who listen to you right I

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know that my podcast is making an impact because I get messages in my inbox and funny F enough some of the

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impact some of the messages I get actually are some from some of my guests more so than just the listeners but but

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I think that's a good thing you know um however I can touch your life I can touch your life you know um but yeah no

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look at the difference that you're making it's better to make a difference in 25 than 100 flaky people because when

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you have a call to action to your core audience of 25 you're going to get more from them than you're going to get from

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the hundred flaky people for real and this whole thing about being an

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influencer I think we need to re retake that that term and rethink of that term

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it's it's not just being famous and somebody giving you a pair of shoes to wear so that you'll take your picture

34:42

with them it's about you have the opportunity to influence the life of a person and impact them so that kid that

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sits in class across from you that never talks and nobody talks to

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what if they're going to be the next big thing in life and come up with something that's going to change the world right

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the next you want to be a part of that would you want to be a part of that I would love to be a part of that the next

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Steve Jobs there's potential in all of us even if the world doesn't recognize it you can and as a podcaster that's our

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job is to to create an atmosphere in a community where people feel loved

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accepted they're part of this group they're part of this podcast and they feel like this

35:32

is home and people will come for the content but they're going to stay for you as a host because there's something

35:38

about you so make that clear and evident and when somebody reaches out to you you

35:44

reach back never leave that sitting in an email folder never leave that in an

35:51

unanswered DM when somebody takes the step to reach out to you be ready to

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reach back to them yes so important you never know what impact that that'll have

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and not only that when you don't reach back to them they might get on Reddit Facebook Tik Tok and start talking about

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you like a dog so get back to them don't give him a reason to I love

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it um so okay this is a good spot to stop because I think you know what we

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need to have another conversation in the future and I could just talk to you all week and that'll be the longest podcast

36:29

ever but um we still do need to do other things but um we again talk about your

36:36

podcast and where to connect with you let's close off with a bang I want people to come fall in love with your

How to Connect with Fatima Bey & Her Business with a Cause

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show and I want people to share it as well so people can share with their Community because there's somebody that

36:48

needs this show and I just want them to connect with you so tell us do all the details let's go so my name is Fatima

36:54

Bay and so is my website f t m a b as and

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boy.com um and then SLP podcast if you want to look at my podcast but honestly

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just Google my name I am not even exaggerating if you Google my name the whole first page is me um some of it

37:14

will be about my sewing business you'll see reviews down there for my wedding gowns um but it my podcast will be there

37:21

as well because I'm on 45 uh plus uh platforms uh

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and so some of that will pop up uh but if you go to my website you can see a whole lot of things something else that

37:32

I want to mention what you didn't ask me about at all but I think it's important to mention I'm a business with a cause

37:37

so both of my businesses donate to an organization that helps human trafficking victims and orphans around

37:43

the world and I think that's something else that also makes me stand out and for you listening for your podcast and

37:50

your character your personality that can make you different too a social Justice cause make that a

37:58

part of your your you know if you really do care about something if you're selfish don't don't pretend but if

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you're not and I think more people are not selfish so if you're not uh if you are a person that cares very

38:11

passionately about something um you know in an altruistic manner um find a way to

38:17

make that a part of your P podcast because that is probably one of the biggest ways to make yourself different

38:24

because people know that you're not just out there for fluff and to promote yourself but you're out there for a real

38:29

reason and that you care that can gain you a stronger following than anything else you got to

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say there it is there it is right there I'm so glad you ended with that that is

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brilliant and I knew that would happen with you and again go back to the beginning wind you up and let you go um

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we want to make sure we're everywhere we're real and we're different and in

38:54

doing that I think we're going to reach a lot of people so thank you for so much for being part of the podcast and you

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got to come back I I definitely will you just let me know and I'll come back on I really enjoyed talking to you and I really appreciate um you know this

39:07

opportunity but I also want to say I really appreciate publicly um I really want to say publicly rather I really

39:14

appreciate what you do because there's a lot of conversations that you have behind the scenes with people and you do genuinely help people that in ways that

39:21

the public doesn't even know and you've done it for me but I know it's not just me so on behalf of the hundreds and

39:28

probably thousands of people that you've helped thank you wow okay now I'm going

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to go in the corner I love it um thank you no I really appreciate that um it's

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I just want people to share their message and the only person who can do your show is you the only person who can

The Uniqueness of YOU: Why No One Else Can Do Your Show

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do this show is me yep and you need to realize that in a world of busy and crowded and lots of noise and you're

39:53

afraid that your message is going to get buried remember the uniqueness of your podcast is you and nobody can do your

40:00

show and if you don't do your show nobody will so right do it get out there

40:05

and get beyond your your fear because there's an audience waiting to connect with you and you have a message for the

40:12

world so get out there share your share your heart share your message start a

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podcast love it hey it's Dave jumping on here at the

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end I hope you're doing well thank you for listening to the out of podcast series putting this out there for you

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you're starting a podcast and you're like Dave the technology is giving me a headache this editing thing is I don't

40:37

know it's banana pants I can't figure it all out um and you're thinking if there was

40:44

somebody who could help me with my podcast I would pay them to do the editing for

40:50

me guess what I'm actually doing that I have clients now now past guests who've

40:58

been on the show on one of my other podcasts on this podcast I'm doing some podcast

41:05

Consulting I am doing podcast editing I'm helping with people launching their podcast getting it all the technology

41:13

stuff while getting your podcast and all the players helping you with your YouTube channel your

41:18

website oh it just goes on and on it goes on and on and I would love to help

41:24

you so instead of going to Fiverr or upw work I've I've been on there I keep

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trying to get on for jobs and nobody's paying attention to me and I'm I need

41:37

attention I would rather work with you as a listener of the show so here's what

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I'm say go to hadap

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there for you I got you and if you like what you hear on any of my seven

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